] The US army does not count the number of Iraqis killed
] since the invasion in March 2003. The most conservative
] figure for the number dead is 10,000 as calculated by
] private groups. It is rising every day. The US military
] claimed that on Tuesday alone it killed "100 militants"
] in air strikes on Fallujah on top of a further 33 people
] killed in fighting in Sadr City in Baghdad.
]
] Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, proudly
] claimed on Tuesday that US forces had, last month, killed
] between 1,500 and 2,500 Iraqi insurgents. He did not note
] an ominous trend that, for the first time, more Americans
] were probably killed by Shia fighters than by Sunni
] guerrillas. For the US, it is now a war on two fronts.